This is Also Athena. Not expecting to meet an Actual God.
...Ironically, given how they were just coming down off of making a deal with the son of an entity that sounded downright Dionysian from everything they understood of the world. It had not been a simple ordeal, but nothing of value was ever simple. They threw the right to simplicity away when they allowed the cybernetic modifications to be done to their body while they were at the threshold of Death itself.
It wasn't as if Athena could even see other options at that point.
Their heart itself seemed as if it had formed a sticky glob in what passed as their throat-- a tactile signal that was noticeable while they caught their breath.
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This is Also Athena. Not expecting to meet an Actual God.
...Ironically, given how they were just coming down off of making a deal with the son of an entity that sounded downright Dionysian from everything they understood of the world. It had not been a simple ordeal, but nothing of value was ever simple. They threw the right to simplicity away when they allowed the cybernetic modifications to be done to their body while they were at the threshold of Death itself.
It wasn't as if Athena could even see other options at that point.
Their heart itself seemed as if it had formed a sticky glob in what passed as their throat-- a tactile signal that was noticeable while they caught their breath.
This was... going to be fun.]